Bug#485000: remove foomatic-* packages from desktop task?

[Per Olofsson <pelle@debian.org>]

Joey Hess wrote:
>> I don't think it's possible to use the db-* files directly from CUPS,
>> although it seems that system-config-printer supports them.
> 
> How does it use them?

Hmm. I don't know. I can't actually find any printer models directly from
foomatic's database. If I remove all ppd packages, all I am left with are the
built-in CUPS ppd's. I can't find anything in the code either that looks in
foomatic's database. The only thing I can find is a search interface which
connects directly to openprinting.org. So maybe it can't read foomatic's
database after all.

foomatic-gui can read the foomatic database (I assume, I can't get it to start
now), but it's not included anymore. And I don't see the point of it anyway.

-- 
Pelle